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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 11

Messrs. I). W. Coleman and A. E. Allen, of Gisborne, have been appointed members of the Transport Appeal Board, No. 3 motor omnihus district. An appeal has been lodged by a Gisborne bus service proprietor, but the date of the sitting of the board, of which the chairman will ho Mr. Justice 1 rszer. has not yet been fixed.

To-day’s Rotary Club luncheon was presided over by Rotarian C. A. Smith, and an interesting review of the panPacific Rotary conference in Sydney, which he attended as delegate from the Gisborne club, was given by Rotarian G. A. Nicholls, who commented warmly upon the hospitality extended to tlio visiting delegates, numbering over 650, from almost all lands bordering (he Pacific Ocean,

Working during the week-end, Messrs. J. .1 Niven and Co.’s staff east a new coupling for the tail-shaft of the Margaret W, anil to-day the casting was being fitted to the motor-ship. It is ex pectcd that the Margaret W will depart this evening under her own power for Auckland, where she will undergo her annual survey. An inspection of the vessel made upon tier arrival from Hicks Buy on Saturday morning revealed no damage btsyord tFie fracture ot the tail-shaft coupling.

The Cinema people who are making a talkie film of Maori life down Taupo way are doing the thing pretty thoroughly, according to a Napier resident, who recently paid a visit to the camp. A very realistic pa had been erected oh a cliff face across the lake as a setting for the film, and arrangements were almost complete for the taking of the big “shots.” The camp, he said, was located in an. almost inaccessible spot, those working! thee having to secure supplies by launch, while the difficulties of transporting the filming apparatus were immense.